Railway-tie.



J. E. & W. J. HENRY.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1914.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

J'IIIIIIIIIIII II'IIIII Attorneys THE NORRIS PgTERs C0.'. PHOTO-LITHO WASHINGTQN, D. L

Tessasea-22.19114.

Application fil ed'llay 25,? 1914.. Serial No. s4o,9o3.= 1

durableFahd-efficient fand including"novel means whereby the rails are secured in place without the use of fastening devices such as" commonly" employed. f" Another obj ect is to provide a *railway'tie which will not creep and serves positively to hold they-rails against spreading."

h thefo-regoing and other objects in view :which 'will' appear .jas "the description proceeds, thef invention resides in the combia" nation and arrangement of parts and in the; details ofc'onstructiori hereinafter described and claimed, it being "understood" that chang in the recise embodiment of t invention herein disclosed, can be "made withinthe scoped-what is claimed, without departingfrom the spirit of the invention. 1 In the accompanying drawings the pre ferred form of the inventionhas been shown.

In said drawings -Figure 1 isview V partly in elevation and partly in section. of

a tie-embodying the present improvements, the rails thereon being shown injsection... Fig.2 is a view: partly in ,;planwand--partly: in section of the structure shown in Flgwll' Fig. 3 is a section on lineA B Fig. 1, the

rail and the cushioning meansbeingshown in elevation. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the rall cha r fornnng a part of the fastening and cushlonlng means. Fig. 5 1s a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a inodified form of rail cushioning means." Fig. 6

is a perspective view of the'cushi oning block used. in Fig. 5. I

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a hollow metallic tie having longitudinal and transverse ribs 2 upon the bottom thereof adapted to engage creeping. Formed in the bottom of the tie .at any suitable points are drain openings 2' 1 f the ends of the tie nearthe-top thereof, these Be'" it'knownfithat we, J MESHENRY1 and XVILLIAM- il. HENRY, citii'ens of the.

United- States, residing at Reed'sville, in the county of 1 State 00f" Pennsylvania, have invented a' new and useful Railway-1 Tie, ofwhich the followingis'a specification. 1 This inventionrelates "to i metallic railway l f "ties, one 'ofits objects being" to provide atie v of this *character" having. means 5 whereby rails securedthereto will he resiliently sup' ported, the supporting" means being simple,

ventilating openings being; preferably inclined "downwardly and r outwardly. I Thus -it-willbe seen th'at any moisture whichmay enter-the tie will'f be 'freeto pass therefrom through the openiiigs 2 and, by-Tre'a'son of the fact that air is'free-tocirculate through the openings3fit will be seen that the in terior of the tie will be maii ltained' in; a dry condition. 'r 7 The top ofthetie'is cut away neaneach duced being extended throughout the Width of thetie and being of 'a width substantially equal to the base of a' rail R. The walls of the tie are thickened below" the endsof the openings 1 4 and are formed with pockets 5. Each pocket is adapted to receive a tongue 6 extending downwardly from" a rail chair which is in the formflofan angular plate adapted to fit snugly within the 1 opening '4 to: project beyond the side walls ofthe upwardly and downwardly within the pockets 5' but are held against 'lateralmovement by the walls of thepockets. r Longitudinal slots 8' e are fformed in the tongues and proj ecting. through -"-these "slots are "retaining bolts '9 ofthelike which extend-"through the pockets "and into the walls of they-tie. "Thus the tongues fig' cannot be withdrawn fromfthe pOckets "unless'the bolts 9 are first rem'oved; The =chair17i's provided along its outer edge with a flange 10 designed to en'- mounted; on; the, chairs Upstanding from the .bottom of the tie and directly under 1 each of the openings 4 is a post 11 on which is mounted a coiled cushioning spring 12, the upper end of which bears against the chair 7. Y

For the purpose of fastening rails to the chairs, devices such as shown 1n Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are employed. These fastening devices include-a shank 13 adapted to be p0- sitioned under one of the extendin terminal portions of the chair 7 and provi ed, at one end, with ahook-shaped head 14 and, at its other end, with a threaded stem 15. This stemis adapted to project loosely through a jaw 16 having a hook-like head 17 while the said jaw is held against displacement relative to the shank 13 by means of a nut 18 or the like engaging stem 15. Obviously by end, as shown at 4, thef opening thus "pro gage the outer base flange of the railR tie. Thesetongues 6 are -adapted to slide i placing the hock l 'sc thatiit will stnaddle one ed'gefthechair 7 a'ndone dfthe base flanges and. hen a j l i he ia- "1 against" the otheredge*df-- the chair "so that its head 17 will engage the other baseflange of the rail, and finally tightening the'e'"pajits' hymeansof thefnut, 18, the, rail willtbe se n imam chasing; af'Sbriz-Q cushiemn" menhi lichaas hereinbcfiQm describe Fihiiig'blobkilg niade bfi wxiqdxomanymher .elelsi.i-red;innatzemi 1- iesliommg ssiteht m m gm a'm'ee h s in hewa ls-hfthehi f chairW. wWhere faicushi ningi'bl hka hii e "1. "A I etallic' railway' tie" having Openings in'thetpp the reof, there bein guide pockets dame-walls "df th'e than eeifds df the penings, a rail supporting chair movable dbwnwardly into each opening, me'ansex- 50 frqm each chain and slidably Inpunttendin %in=-the adjacent pocket a-cushi6n i1ig ewwit helement'mithinicthes.tie and under each chair,

' -a-nd means for fastening a rail to the chair.

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